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March 1, 2004

Editor’s View: Stop the Presses!

by MARK AREND W ho says a magazine that publishes just six times a year can’t break news stories? This issue, featuring our annual Governor’s Cup award for the state with the most new and expanded commercial facilities in 2003, is packed with news. Ohio has broken a several-year claim to the Cup held by […]

March 1, 2004

The 7E7: A Bold Gamble for Both Boeing and the State of Washington

A ppropriately, the University of Washington Husky Marching Band played “Tequila.”         That 1958 oldie reflected the giddy buzz rippling through the gala toasting Boeing’s decision to bring its US$900-million 7E7 assembly plant to Everett, Wash. Both Boeing and Washington had similar reasons to celebrate. Each had mounted a bold gamble aiming […]

March 1, 2004

Web

M anaging and communicating information regarding industrial construction projects to maintain accountability has long been a challenge for company owners. By providing fast access to centralized project information, Internet collaboration platforms are gradually gaining acceptance as a way to increase efficiencies, improve communications and curtail cost overruns.         Constructware (www.constructware.com), an Alpharetta, […]

March 1, 2004

World Reports, Site Selection Magazine, March 2004

LCD Demand Spurs Huge New Plant Investment WHERE IT ALL BEGINS: Before any LCD panels can be made, you have to have the LCs. That’s why German concern Merck is investing more than $314 million in a new plant that will triple its crystal capacity. Growing demand for LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions and computer […]

March 1, 2004

Buckeye State Comeback, 2003 Governor’s Cup, Site Selection Magazine, March 2004

E conomic development officials in Ohio are hoping their capture of the 2003 Governor’s Cup is the beginning of a repeat of the state’s three-year claim to the prize 10 years ago. In 1993 and for the next two years, Ohio won Site Selection‘s highly coveted Governor’s Cup, which recognizes the state in which the […]

March 1, 2004

IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, March 2004

  Dear IAMC members and prospective members: This month I am pleased to welcome many of you to the IAMC Professional Forum in Tucson, Ariz., March 13-17, 2004.         Our focus is top-notch professional education and executive networking exclusively for the industrial and manufacturing corporate real estate community. We strive to present […]

March 1, 2004

New Plant Scoreboard

Continue to: 2003’s Top Metros – “Chicago Dominance More Than Mythical”

March 1, 2004

Top Global Projects

T wo independent sources of foreign direct investment intelligence essentially concur where business expansion and relocation in 2003 is concerned. Both Conway Data’s New Plant database, which has tracked such activity for 40 years, and IBM Business Consulting Services-Plant Location International’s (IBM-PLI) GILD (Global Investment Location Database) make the same case: Corporations are not shutting […]

March 1, 2004

2003 Top Small Towns, The Road to Boomtown, Site Selection Magazine, March 2004

T he road to boomtown travels up through the heartland of America and arrives at a place called Traverse City, Mich.         Ranked for the second year in a row by Site Selection as the No. 1 small town in America for new and expanded corporate facilities, Traverse City exemplifies a community […]

March 1, 2004

Top Industries

R ecord sales of cars and trucks around the world in 2003 fueled a new round of facility expansions among transportation equipment manufacturers.         According to data from Site Selection‘s New Plant Database, transportation equipment manufacturers accounted for more new and expanded plants last year than any other industry.       […]

March 1, 2004

Baltimore Incubating Bio Park Duo, Site Selection Magazine, March 2004

E ast side, west side, biotech research parks are going up all around the town in Baltimore. Two major bio parks are in the works that figure to enhance Maryland’s already strong presence in the field. Maryland’s biotech industry has been ranked as the third most concentrated among U.S. states and includes more than 300 […]

January 1, 2004

IAMC Insider, Site Selection magazine, January 2004

  Dear IAMC members and prospective members: Fifty years ago, McKinley “Mac” Conway founded what would become Site Selection, the premier publication in its field, then and now. Not long thereafter, he and a few pals founded an organization of industrial developers interested in furthering the fields of economic development and corporate real estate through […]

January 1, 2004

L ike members of the Polar Bear Club – those people who meet annually at a lake in January to jump into frigid water – an intrepid set of service providers has recently been through Site Selection’s annual client-service awards challenge. Now in their fifth year, the Site Selection/William Dorsey Service Provider Awards recognize those […]

January 1, 2004

Super Sites: Size Isn’t Everything, Site Selection Magazine, January 2004

T hey travel under cover of the night, their missions concealed under code names like Rosewood, Valentine, Heaven, Beach and Diamond. Their quest? A mega-site to call home for a mega -project, one that could bestow economic laurels on its suitors and their citizens for generations to come.         First, though, these […]

January 1, 2004

Biotech/Pharmaceutical Industry Review, Site Selection magazine, January 2004

he founding management team at Cytovance Biologics had a good idea of what they were getting when they decided to put the fledgling biotech firm’s first manufacturing facility in Oklahoma City. All five are alums of Novozyme Pharmaceuticals, a homegrown OKC firm which gained attention for its enzyme replacement therapies at the turn of the […]

January 1, 2004

Emerging Logistics Hubs, Special Advertising Section, Site Selection magazine, January 2004

he old distribution warehouse isn’t what it used to be. Logistics operations face added pressure to modernize and upgrade their facilities, says Franco M. Eleuteri, lead specialist and senior vice president of AECOM Facilities.         If North American-based corporate asset managers do not upgrade their logistics operations now, says Eleuteri, they will […]

January 1, 2004

Trends in Site Selection, Special Advertising Section, Site Selection magazine, January 2004

he frequent mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and, at times, even expansions, that run rampant through American businesses today, often necessitate bringing in professionals to ensure that relocations run smoothly.         “Clients are looking to their brokers to perform more of a consultant role and to not just be transaction oriented,” notes Paul Hoge, […]

January 1, 2004

Editor’s View: Prime Time, Site Selection Magazine, January 2004

by MARK AREND O n the occasion of my turning 40 in November, a slightly older, out-of-state friend sent me an e-mail, saying, “Welcome to the prime of your life – it’s better over here.” As Site Selection turns 50, my colleagues and I are busy making sure the next 50 years of publishing this […]

January 1, 2004

North American Reports

from Site Selection’s 50th Anniversary issue: January 2004 NORTH AMERICAN REPORTS Scripps Building in Florida, But Will Cluster Come? The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County spent over a year and some $57.6 million to get this site ready for Scripps. by JACK LYNE Scripps will build it in Florida. But will they come, […]